1st Gen Mew

Started by Dragon January 3rd, 2015 3:35 PM
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Believe it or not, Mew was not planned to be programmed in the game. It was just intended to be as a joke from one of the developers, so that only Game Freak staff members would know about and be able to obtain that pokemon. But of course, thanks to a well known glitch at Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue, players soon found out about Mew too!

The glitch itself though, was pretty tricky.. you'd have to battle this trainer with a slowpoke, then fly to Lavender towards a gambler, BUT you're not supposed to battle the gamer - you're supposed to take one step towards him, then press start immediately to fly. Soon you'd have to go back to Lavender where the start menu 'pops up', then when you close iit, Mew will be encountered. But there's also a lot of different versions of this method with different trainers and locations.

Or.. something like that, I don't really remember that much, but, it was a glitch! Haha. Once you've gotten mew, you'll find out that Mew can learn every single move in the entire game, making it.. versatile, to say the least!

In any case, did you ever obtain Mew, or knew about Mew during your playthrough of Pokemon Blue and Red? What do you think of this mysterious 151th pokemon?


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0.0 WHOA my mind has been blown! I never knew about this glitch and I usually love to learn about glitches in Pokémon. But then again I wasn't born during the times of Red and Blue, so maybe that has something to do with it. But back on track I've obviously never obtained Mew during a playthrough of Red and honestly... I'm sorta happy about it:


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I remember this glitch, but I wouldn't remember how to get it today. xP But I sure do recall catching Mew a couple playthroughs with it, and it was a funny thing since its stats were rounded and could learn every TM or HM. Funny stuff. Too bad Mew is one we won't be able to get as easily today...
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I thought Mew was saved to be an event only obtainable. Blew my mind. But yes, I caught Mew in my Red and Blue playthroughs. My most recent one I didn't but before that I did it most of the time, along with the MissingNo. glitch.

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Well, when I first played through the games, I didn't know about Mew because of lack of internet and everything. However, when the internet grew and people started to uncover this, I went back in and tried the glitch out. It certainly works! I obtained Mew through it and used it in new playthroughs. I love Mew, its one of my favorite legendaries so I am thankful for someone uncovering this and to the programmers for adding Mew in! Haha. Although it takes some doing, getting Mew through this glitch is worth it :3

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On my fist few playthroughs I did not know about the Mew glitch. Once I leared about it, I executed the glitch to get Mew. I think Mew is an interesting Pokémon because it learned every move in the game at the time.
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Ah, a classic! :) I LOVED to exploit this glitch during every playthrough of Pokemon R/B/Y :P Yeah, I found out too soon enough about this glitch, and some others like getting a huge amount of rare candies or something (only available in Red/Blue) :P

I also transferred the Mews to other games like G/S/C, which helped me filling the Pokedex and it was an awesome Pokemon AND an awesome way to obtain it :3


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I admit that I never actually knew about the Mew glitch. I guess it is because probably none of my IRL friends knew about it either. So I never obtained Mew.
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Yeah I have done the glitch and gotten a Mew that way *cough* and stuffed it in a box *cought*. I really would love to see something similar in a newer game. Like in a remake of RB they acknowledge the 2 most famous glitchs of said games. They already made the fake pokegods real mega evolutions so why not?
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I only learned about the Mew glitch after beating Yellow version. Since Mew was (and still is) one of my favourite Pokemon, it was worth the sacrifice - I restarted Yellow just so I could get that Mew. (Not that I suffered a great loss anyway - I transferred all of my Pokemon and items to Pokemon Stadium, haha.) I remember being so stupidly happy when the glitch worked and I had my very own Mew. <3

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Heh, I remember this glitch! I was at my cousins for the weekend (while back) and found that he had just bought Pokémon yellow and a Teal Gameboy Color. I was the person who only did research on these games cause I didn't own them at the time. He was still at the start of the game when I got there, still in Viridian. I knew it was my destiny to do the mew glitch, after doing tons of research before-hand on it. We rushed to cerulean city to do the glitch, when we finally got there, we caught an abra that knew teleport. We had a bulbasaur which was a good thing, because it knew growl. If the Pokémon knew growl, and you used it 7 times on the slowpoke that you had to battle, the mew on the bridge would be level1! So what? Well, once we finally did all the steps of pressing start, teleporting, etc etc, when we finally battled mew, it was level1. We caught it, and then we went to the grass west of cerulean. We leveled Mew up 1 level, and instead of growing to level2, it grew to level100! That was the plan, that if you get a level1 mew and level it up 1 level, with a certain amount of exp, it grows 100 levels ^_^ . Oooh the Mew glitch, good times.

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I don't know if I still have the save from my Blue cartridge or if it got corrupted, but if it's still there, then also are my two Mew that I caught when I last played the game. One of them was my HM slave and the other one I used for battles.

I think you can get up to three of them by fighting the right trainers and even more if you fight wild Dittos using Pokemon with certain stats. Also a funny thing to note: Mew can learn transform and when encountering a wild and let it transform, you will not be able to catch it, as the game thinks that only Ditto can use this move, which is why you'll get a Ditto instead. {XD}
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I remember this glitch fondly and used it to the max haha. I definitely utilised Mew (come on, it's was a beast being able to learn every single move in the game). It might have been a bit cheaty but I didn't care haha, it was fun to use him!
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Got a Mew from a Nintendo Mall Tour event back in the day. There was this blue and yellow machine set up on a little table, machine looks like a Super Nintendo/Famicom. Had it for at least a few years until I discovered GB incompatibility with GBA in early 2000s.

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Ah the mew glitch... Brings back memories... I often wonder why we don't get cool glitches like these today. I mean, you could program most of the ram to do whatever you wanted in rbyg, and gsc even had arbitrary code execution. Now days most games don't even have cool glitches. Maybe some wall clipping and crashes, but that's nothing compared to what we got in older games. I remember completing my pokedex in red, and then deciding to do it in emerald. While I did eventually get it (without cheats in the end, pomeg glitch and glitch hatching) I was constantly thinking of how much harder it's gotten as games go on to glitch your way to 100%. Heck, unless things changed recently, I'm not even sure if we can complete the pokedex in 4th gen games without a cheating device, let alone 6th gen.

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A few years back, somebody lent me their Blue to play through. I did the glitch and got two Mews for us. But I don't have the Blue anymore and that person has moved away. It was fairly recently though, around in 2008 or something, by which time everyone knew about Mew and the glitch, and the internet was a thing. Otherwise, I haven't really played through the first generation that much. However, Mew's always had a sort of mystique to it for me, because I never got to have one in my childhood playing G/S. So I was pretty excited to get one I could exchange to my Gold/Silver versions. Sadly, the battery on those are both dead and I couldn't trade it over anyway.
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I got my Mew via the infamous glitch (the Cerulean City one), and he's pretty interesting considering he knew all the TMs and he's considered to be the ancestor of the Pokemon universe.

That and the Pokemon Adventures manga made Mew more interesting.

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I remember this. It was early 2002 or 2003 when this came out. It's pretty good to know Mew was obtainable with the help of that glitch, but...couldn't it have happened earlier back when I played the game in 99? Me and my cousin searched for Mew like crazy! With missingno. and the Safari Zone glitch and such...
And I wonder: How have players/fans found this glitch?

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When I first started, I got it via buddy's Gameshark. Fast forward a decade and I ended up coming across the cerulean cape method and I practically had a heart attack. Bless Game Freak for that installation!
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